Directed by
Ben Affleck

The Town (2010)

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

We’ll never get 24 hour surveillance unless one of these idiots converts to Islam.

Let me be up front and say that Ben Affleck isn’t my favorite actor, especially when he’s not working for Kevin Smith. Somehow, he often seems out of his depth when he tries to stretch himself too far beyond that Good Will Hunting earnestness. Only two features into his directorial career, however, I’m quickly becoming a fan of his work behind the camera. We’ll see how he does when he moves outside the comfort zone of the Boston crime story, but maybe he shouldn’t bother. John Ford stuck mostly to westerns, and he did all right.

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Gone Baby Gone (2007)

Monday, February 25th, 2008

My priest says shame is God telling you what you did was wrong.

All of the reflexive Ben Affleck haters reading this will probably take heart that he appears nowhere on screen during this movie and should be further gratified that he seems to have a real future behind the camera. As a director, he seems to have a sure but almost unnoticeable hand while filming this adaptation of the novel by Mystic River author Dennis Lehane.

Gone Baby Gone

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Director:  | Released:  | 141 min. | Rated:  | Genres: